Transfer of prisoners to mental health facilities

[Section effective until December 31, 2023. For section effective January 1, 2024, see below.] If any resident of a state correctional facility is in need of acute psychiatric treatment for mental illness, the director of public safety or the officer in charge of the correctional facility may file with the director an application for the transfer of the resident to a facility operated by the department of health or at which the director of health contracts for services, together with the certificate of a psychiatrist or psychologist employed by the department showing the need for such treatment, and, upon approval of the application by the director, the official having custody of the resident shall transfer the resident to the facility operated by the department or at which the director contracts for care and treatment. The official effecting the transfer of the resident shall keep the director informed of the maximum period of commitment of the resident to the director of public safety, and, if the continued care of the resident beyond the expiration of the period is deemed necessary, the director shall institute the procedures required to detain the resident as a patient notwithstanding the resident's release from the state correctional facility; provided that a judicial hearing pursuant to sections 334-60.2 to 334-60.7 be held by the same circuit court that sentenced the resident. In the event that discharge from the facility operated by the department or at which the director contracts for services occurs before the expiration of the maximum period of commitment or confinement, the resident shall be returned to the appropriate state correctional facility. As used in this section, "resident" means any person serving a sentence in a state correctional facility or any child or minor detained in a state correctional facility.